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A Lake County deputy sheriff killed a suspect Tuesday who beat the law officer with an oar in a Fruitland Park lake, the Sheriff's Office said.
A hit-and-run driver crashed into a store and another vehicle, and the suspect also tried to carjack another...

A pedestrian was killed by a hit-and-run driver Sunday on Westmoreland Drive in Orlando, police reported.
The victim was discovered shortly before 4 a.m. by a passerby, who did not witness the crash, according to a spokeswoman with the Orlando Police...

A man was arrested Thursday in a hit-and-run crash that left a woman dead and a Polk County deputy severely injured.
Sheriff Grady Judd announced the arrest at a news conference, describing the suspect, Charles "Charley" Lewis, 71, as...

Ocoee police identified the 37-year-old man who was killed in a hit-and-run accident early Sunday.
Abename Perez Cruz was walking along West Silver Star Road near Taylor Street around 1 a.m. when he was hit by a vehicle.
The driver, who was later...

Leesburg police are looking for a 2014 Nissan Frontier, with damage on the right front and on the side, in connection with a hit-and-run that killed a pedestrian on U.S. Highway 27 Sunday.
The vehicle is also missing the passenger side rearview...

Ocoee police on Sunday arrested a driver accused of killing a pedestrian, then fleeing.Jenner Ramos-Navarro, 25, faces a charge of leaving the scene of a fatal crash. Ramos-Navarro is accused of hitting the man, whose name was not released, as he walked...

It's been two years since Jessica Erausquin, 27, of Orlando was found dead in a Cocoa Beach cul-de-sac.
But time has not healed any of the pain for her mother.
"This has been two years of torture," said Olga Erausquin of New York. "Not...

State troopers have identified the Orlando man who was critically injured in a hit-and-run moped crash early Wednesday. Clarence Gordon Hadler, 64, was driving east on Colonial Drive at Forsyth Road about 4:40 a.m. when a car rear-ended his moped,...

A 19-year-old man Monday entered a plea for his involvement in a hit-and-run crash that injured an Orlando police officer last year.
Angel Nieves, who was a passenger in the car, pleaded no contest to charges of accessory after the fact and tampering...

A 35-year-old Orlando man is dead after a suspected hit-and-run collision, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Troopers found the man, whose name has not yet been released, just after 6 p.m. Friday along the south shoulder of Colonial Drive near...

Officials are searching for the driver of a light-colored pickup truck who they say was involved in a fatal hit-and-run in College Park Friday night.
The driver was traveling west on Fairbanks Avenue at about 10:02 p.m. when the vehicle collided with a...

A 34-year-old man is dead after being struck by a car in Poinciana Friday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.Alexis Perez, of Kissimmee, was crossing Marigold Avenue near San Remo Road from the east to the left when he walked into the direct path of...

Three days after the hit-and-run crash that would lead to criminal charges against him, Belle Isle interim city manager Richard Anderson opened an email containing words of support from another longtime Central Florida leader.
The April 8 email thread...

Authorities responding to a hit-and-run crash near Sorrento in April found a man bleeding on the ground near his smashed Toyota and the twisted wreckage of a Dodge pickup with no driver in sight.Investigators later identified the driver as Richard...

Florida Highway Patrol identified the man killed Wednesday night in a hit-and-rush crash in Brevard County.
Hurshell Cordell, 72, of Cocoa, was found dead in the northbound lane of U.S. Highway 1 near Fay Boulevard.
Investigators said a vehicle hit...

The woman responsible for the hit-and-run crash that killed a 17-year-old girl and severely injured her 18-year-old brother in 2013 will spend one year and one day in jail, officials say.
Kila Holland, a graduate of the University of Central Florida, was...

Several eyewitnesses placed retired Apopka city administrator Richard Anderson at the scene of an April 5 hit-and-run crash near Sorrento that left a motorist with a concussion, collapsed lung and broken bones, according to an arrest affidavit.The...

Apopka consultant Richard Anderson has declined to send the city an affidavit denying involvement in a hit-and-run crash earlier this month.Without the sworn statement, the City Council on Wednesday will discuss canceling Anderson's $264,000-per-year...